Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

... today and I felt like accomplishing something trivial.  Normally everyone works hard for long hours, but for whatever reason the station was running at half-speed.  I don't know really why, but we like to blame the fickle barometric altitude, ...

... our belongings palletized in cargo nets in the back of the large cargo hold in which we sit. 11/9 I'm at the South Pole. It's a little past midnight, and my thick curtain can barely block the intense sunlight through the window of my ...

Today I guided in a plane.  It was pretty slow at the heavy VMF--vehicle maintenance facility--so one of the fuelies dropped by and asked if I wanted to do something fun. Before I knew it, I was out on the "flight deck" (a large area of ice ...

... a week, so the impending epidemic will be an especially sour note to end on. I had already heard through the South Pole sewing circle rumor mill that this particular dentist already had a reputation for being "psychotic."  Imagine Little Shop of ...